<i>Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature </i>studies medieval attitudes towards the human mediation of God's and Christ's voices and thus attends to how medieval people resignified a pagan practice. As Mary Hayes demonstrates, the ventriloquized divine voice ultimately permits an exploration of human relationships with God as well as mundane relationships between the divine voice's designated clerical mediators and their lay audiences. This book shows that the ventriloquized divine voice became a contested site of power as priests acquired more institutional endorsement and, ironically, devotion in some ways became putatively more lay-centered. Taken together, these chapters tell a story, one of a progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power, to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice, to a subversive take on the ability of lay people not only to mimic the clerical voice but also to generate their own unique performances capable of divine communication.

Divine Ventriloquism in Medieval English Literature: Power, Anxiety, Subversion (The New Middle Ages)

HAYES, M.

Religion & Spirituality

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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HUMIC SUBSTANCES, PEATS AND SL (Special Publications)

Science & Math

Wilson, W.

Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry, [

The primary focus of these conference proceedings concerns the discovery of plant constituents with particular reference to potential utility in the pharmaceutical and agrochemical industries and emphasizes recent technological developments. These include high throughput screening and the requirement for efficient dereplication procedures, which involve the early recognition both of known compounds and the presence of multiple samples containing the same active chemical.

PHYTOCHEMICAL DIVERSITY (Special Publications)

THOMAS, R.

WRIGLEY, S.

CHRYSTAL, E.

A study of medieval attitudes towards the ventriloquism of God's and Christ's voices through human media, which reveals a  progression from an orthodox view of divine vocal power to an anxiety over the authority of the priest's voice to a subversive take on the divine voice that foreshadows Protestant devotion.

If We Disappear Here

Literature & Fiction

Hayes, Mindy

Genre Fiction

Independently published

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